Pod Casting
Friday, February 16th, 2007I think I want to get into pod casting.
Not all the time, maybe once a week or a couple times a month.
How many of you have the capacity to listen to MP3 files and would be interested in this kind of thing?
Archive for February 16th, 2007
Test Audio Post
Friday, February 16th, 2007This is a test of my new audio post software. Check it out.
The Shadow of Operación Puerto
Friday, February 16th, 2007VeloNews reports today that Jan Ullrich is still without a contract for 2007, but is training for the enviable phone call. VN also states that Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) are undecided regarding Disco rider Ivan Basso’s ability to participate in ASO events like the Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour de France.
On October 8 2006 the Madrid court in charge of the Puerto case told the Spanish cycling federation (Real Federación Española de Ciclismo) that it’s court documents could not be used in the federation’s investigations. So, without the evidence from the Spanish court, Ivan Basso was cleared by Italian authorities on October 13 and Jan Ullrich was cleared twelve days later.
However, despite the joy (or despair depending upon your perspective) in the cycling community regarding the dismissal of charges, the investigation by the Spanish courts regarding Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes and the athletes he worked with continues on. The court continue to take testimony from those with knowledge of the situation and this includes cyclists that were involved with Dr. Fuentes. Once the court has the information it needs you can be sure that charges will follow and all the dirt will come out during trial.
So what to do in the mean time?
While I understand and respect the desire of ASO to keep their event free from the stain of doping, I don’t see how you can keep these guys away from racing without either a positive dope test or some real evidence of doping. The truth will come out at some point, but until then Basso and Ullrich should probably be allowed to race.
Your thoughts?
GOP candidate
Friday, February 16th, 200741% of Sean Hannity wack jobs want Newt Gingrich to get the nomination. Please…oh please make it so.
Straight clucker John McCain is not even included in the poll. Why does Sean Hannity hate our war veterans?
Saint Rudy is polling just under 30%. Rudy for the GOP nod? Fine with me. When the conservatives on National Review think the guy has a problem then you know there is plenty of material to prove what a jerk he really is.
Few of those admiring America’s Mayor from afar remember the real mayor who became so jealous of the media attention given to Bill Bratton — his own police commissioner and the brains behind much of his crime-reduction strategy — that he drove the man out of office. Iowa voters have never heard about the Rudy who could walk into a town-hall meeting in The Bronx and shout down a boorish but pitiful female questioner (she rambled on that she had been unjustly evicted, as Esquire Magazine described it in 1997) with an over-the-top response like, “I’m glad we didn’t help you.”
Those who lived in New York prior to 9/11, myself included, remember an excellent mayor who was obsessed with getting credit for everything and making his critics pay; an effective mayor who called rivals “jerks” and “morons;” a decisive mayor who knowingly set out to drag his 14- and 10-year-old children through one of the nastiest and most publicized divorces in history. They remember a ruthless mayor who responded to the accidental police shooting of Patrick Dorismond in 2000 not just by defending the cops (as a good mayor must), but by illegally releasing the victim’s sealed juvenile rap sheet and declaring on television that the deceased “isn’t an altar boy.”
It’s been fun to listen to WATB Hannity twist himself into knots in his attempts to convince his listeners that Rudy is their guy.
I don’t think it’s going to be Straight clucker McCain or Saint Rudy in the end. There is too much dirt on these guys and they both have too short a fuse to go the distance. Watching them blow up will be plenty fun though.
Hincapie plans cycling village
Friday, February 16th, 2007Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains to the north of Greenville, South Carolina, the community will include home sites, a hotel, conference center, restaurant, media center, and state-of-the-art fitness and training facilities as well as two four-mile outdoor tracks, one for cycling, the other for mountain biking and trail running.
Left out of the press release is the fact that no matter how fast you ride around the road cycling track you will never finish better than second place. There is also a mud filled ditch along side the track to steer into if the ride is just not going your way.
Actually, when I first heard the term “cycling village” I immediately thought of this:
